Pherbellia cinerella (Fallén, 1820)

Khaghaninia, S., Kazerani, F. & Vala, Jean-Claude, 2018, New Data About Snail-Killing Flies (Diptera, Sciomyzidae) In Iran, Vestnik Zoologii 52 (1), pp. 21-30 : 22

Pherbellia cinerella (Fallén, 1820)

Material examined: Iran: East Azerbaijan Province, Ajabshir (grove habitat) [37°31´N, 46°07´E, 1660 m], 10.07.2009, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ; Kandovan (moist grassland habitat) [37°46´N, 46°16´E, 2500 m], 15.07.2010, 5 ♂, 4 ♀ ; Maragheh (grove habitat) [37°25´N, 46°25´E, 1790 m], 5.06.2011, 2 ♂, 5 ♀ (Khaghaninia leg.) .

Distribution. Palaearctic: From north Europe to souh Europe; North Africa, eastern Russia. Oriental region. Middle East: Armenia, Tadjikistan, and Afghanistan. Iran: Rozkošný, Elberg (1984); Seddighi Sadr, Mohammadzade namin (2016).

Biology. Rozkošný (1967) described the larval morphology, and Bratt et al. (1969) described the life cycle and made the description of all immature stages. The larvae are predators of terrestrial and aquatic gastropods ( Bratt et al., 1969). Oviposition stimulus is a substrate moistened with fresh snail faeces or mucus of helicid-prey ( Cernuella virgata Da Costa) ( Coupland, 1996). The puparium is formed outside the shell prey, and in southern France adults are overwintering ( Vala, 1989) but in Russia has been found that pupa are overwintering also ( Gaponov, 2016). This species has a short developmental time and is multivoltine ( Vala, 1989; Gaponov, 2016).